The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-16

of this company in charge of the local freight
and passenger business of the Indianapolis q
Michigan City division. The Office of division
freight and passenger agent at Peru, Ind. is
discontinued"
The earnings of the L., N, 4. & C. road for
the first week in April. were $50. 915, an in
crease over the earnings of the corresponding
week IN 1856. of So. 908. The earnings of the
Evansville q Terre Haute, were $18.326; in
crease, $4,000 The earnings of the Louisville,
Evansville & St Louis. were 500 400; increase,
50. Zoe The earnings of the Wabash, were
97.207; decrease. $476
President Mackey, of the Evansville lines,
handles strikes without fear favor. His
painters went out last week and he Immediately
imported men from other points and would
have nothing to do with any of the old painters
some OF whom, when they learned the situation.
were DESTROYS of being reinstated. Mr. Mackey
even went far as to not employ any man who
had been painter in Evansville, lest he mig {
be tainted with the strikers ideas.
L. j. Wickes. of the Merchants Despatch, WAS
IN the city. Saturday, inspecting the cars the
Indianapolis car works building for this fast
freight line, eighty of which stand in the
yards. and with their neatly painted red, white
and blue coors. have nearly as attractive an ap-
pearance as did the famous vestibule train which
passed through here few days ago. Mr..
Wickes says these the best built freight cars
ever placed on the track, and they SO strong
ly built that, with load of fifty tons. they can
safely be run on passengertra time
General Passenger Agent Ford of the Penn
sylvania lines west of Pittsburg, will spend
this week comforting with the ticket agents on
the several divisions. He has made eleven lists of
ticket agents. each list including fifteen or
twenty in one district and he has asked each
agent included in these lists to meet him at
designated places The assistant general pas
senger agents will accompany him. After Mr..
Ford gets through with this trip, he might call
meeting of the ticket agents of the Western
lines. which the Pennsylvania is boycotting,
and learn their views the com mission ques-
ton. Doubtless they would make interestng
reading, if published
road, and the other officials who accompanied
him West. returned Saturday evening. While
absent they met j. F. Barnard president OF
the Ohio 81 Mississippi road, and with him
ran over the Springfield division of the o. 81 nj.
system to Beardstown, the western terminus of
this division of the o. & M. Possibly there is q
better future for this division through a con-
nection with the l., d. d S. road. The pro-
gramme, as laid out, is for. the l., D. d s., as
soon as reorganized and upon its feet to build
from Decatur. its present western terminus, to
Springfield. H., distance of eighteen miles.
Here connection would be made with the 0. 81
NJ, which the l., D. q S. people propose to pur-
chase outright to en- ter into long time traffic
agreement. When the l., d. & S reaches
cago. Burlington & Quincy for the Northwest,
which would at the very outset insure the l., D.
81 S. reaching into a country from which it could
secure a large and profitable business, as it
would open up a short route to the East and the
Southeast, making better feeder for the L., d.
e. S. than it could well obtain in any other di-
rection and the same time. at a trifling ex-
pense as compared to building to the Mis-
souri, river. Those the inside predict that
before winter the T.. D. & s. will be dong a
business which will place this road among the
best running into Indianapolis.